Psych 100A Exam 3 UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
The shared ideas and behaviours that one generation passes on to the next is known as their ...
- CORRECT ANSWER Culture
A negative correlation between people's work-related stress and their marital happiness would
indicate that
A. Marital unhappiness promotes work-related stress
B. Work-related stress has a negative impact on marital happiness
C. Martial happiness has no causal influence on work-related stress
D. Higher levels of martial happiness are associated with lower levels of work-related stress -
CORRECT ANSWER Higher levels of marital happiness are associated with lower
levels of work-related stress
Political officials who have no doubt that their own economic and military predictions will
come true most clearly demonstrate ... - CORRECT ANSWER Overconfidence
To test the potential effect of hunger on taste sensitivity, groups of research participants are
deprived of food for differing lengths of time before they engage in a taste-sensitivity test.
This research is an example of... - CORRECT ANSWER an experiment
Professor Carter observes and records the behaviour of grocery shoppers as they select items
to purchase. Which type of research is Professor Carter using? - CORRECT
ANSWER Naturalistic Observation
In debating the origins of human traits, Plato and Aristotle disagreed about the relative
importance of - CORRECT ANSWER Nature and Nurture
Which early school of psychology was most clearly focused on understanding the adaptive
value of complex mental processes?
A. Functionalism
B. Behaviourism
, C. Structuralism
D. Psychiatry - CORRECT ANSWER Functionalism
Stacey suggests that because children are more impulsive than adults, they will have more
difficulty controlling their angers. Stacey's prediction regarding anger management is an
example of
A. Informed consent
B. An operational definition
C. A hypothesis
D. The placebo effect - CORRECT ANSWER A hypothesis
Which research method runs the greatest risk of collecting evidence that may be
unrepresentative of what is generally true? - CORRECT ANSWER The case study
Every twenty-fifth person who subscribed to a weekly news magazine was contacted by
market researches to complete a survey of opinions regarding the magazine's contents. The
researchers were applying the technique know as ... - CORRECT ANSWER Random
sampling
To provide a rough estimate of how similar or diverse a set of scores is, we should calculate
the
A. Mean
B. Range
C. Median
D. Standard deviation - CORRECT ANSWER Range
To study inner sensations, images, and feelings, Edward Titchener engaged people in self-
reflective ... - CORRECT ANSWER introspection
The use of scientific methods to explore people's satisfaction with the past, happiness with
the present, and optimism about the future is most clearly characteristic of ... - CORRECT
ANSWER Positive psychology
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
The shared ideas and behaviours that one generation passes on to the next is known as their ...
- CORRECT ANSWER Culture
A negative correlation between people's work-related stress and their marital happiness would
indicate that
A. Marital unhappiness promotes work-related stress
B. Work-related stress has a negative impact on marital happiness
C. Martial happiness has no causal influence on work-related stress
D. Higher levels of martial happiness are associated with lower levels of work-related stress -
CORRECT ANSWER Higher levels of marital happiness are associated with lower
levels of work-related stress
Political officials who have no doubt that their own economic and military predictions will
come true most clearly demonstrate ... - CORRECT ANSWER Overconfidence
To test the potential effect of hunger on taste sensitivity, groups of research participants are
deprived of food for differing lengths of time before they engage in a taste-sensitivity test.
This research is an example of... - CORRECT ANSWER an experiment
Professor Carter observes and records the behaviour of grocery shoppers as they select items
to purchase. Which type of research is Professor Carter using? - CORRECT
ANSWER Naturalistic Observation
In debating the origins of human traits, Plato and Aristotle disagreed about the relative
importance of - CORRECT ANSWER Nature and Nurture
Which early school of psychology was most clearly focused on understanding the adaptive
value of complex mental processes?
A. Functionalism
B. Behaviourism
, C. Structuralism
D. Psychiatry - CORRECT ANSWER Functionalism
Stacey suggests that because children are more impulsive than adults, they will have more
difficulty controlling their angers. Stacey's prediction regarding anger management is an
example of
A. Informed consent
B. An operational definition
C. A hypothesis
D. The placebo effect - CORRECT ANSWER A hypothesis
Which research method runs the greatest risk of collecting evidence that may be
unrepresentative of what is generally true? - CORRECT ANSWER The case study
Every twenty-fifth person who subscribed to a weekly news magazine was contacted by
market researches to complete a survey of opinions regarding the magazine's contents. The
researchers were applying the technique know as ... - CORRECT ANSWER Random
sampling
To provide a rough estimate of how similar or diverse a set of scores is, we should calculate
the
A. Mean
B. Range
C. Median
D. Standard deviation - CORRECT ANSWER Range
To study inner sensations, images, and feelings, Edward Titchener engaged people in self-
reflective ... - CORRECT ANSWER introspection
The use of scientific methods to explore people's satisfaction with the past, happiness with
the present, and optimism about the future is most clearly characteristic of ... - CORRECT
ANSWER Positive psychology
